ProgramsNon-members are invited to attend any program, but we kindly ask for a $5 fee.
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October 13, 2026 - 7PM
Big, Bold, and Beautiful: Using African Prints in Quilts
Join quilt artist Kena Tangi Dorsey for an inspiring Zoom lecture that celebrates the vibrant beauty and cultural richness of African textiles! Discover how to confidently incorporate stunning fabrics from Ghana, Nigeria, and other regions of Africa into your quilts.
Kena will share tips on selecting and pairing African fabrics, insights into the meanings behind popular designs, and examples from her own quilt work that showcase the power and personality of African wax prints. Whether your quilting style leans traditional, contemporary, or modern, this lecture will spark new ideas and encourage you to embrace the big, the bold, and the beautiful in your next creation!
Big, Bold, and Beautiful: Using African Prints in Quilts
Join quilt artist Kena Tangi Dorsey for an inspiring Zoom lecture that celebrates the vibrant beauty and cultural richness of African textiles! Discover how to confidently incorporate stunning fabrics from Ghana, Nigeria, and other regions of Africa into your quilts.
Kena will share tips on selecting and pairing African fabrics, insights into the meanings behind popular designs, and examples from her own quilt work that showcase the power and personality of African wax prints. Whether your quilting style leans traditional, contemporary, or modern, this lecture will spark new ideas and encourage you to embrace the big, the bold, and the beautiful in your next creation!
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Workshop - Let's Make a Selfie Portrait Quilt
Saturday, October 17, 2026 10AM - 4PM Meissner's Sewing Center 98 Clarksville Road, Folsom, CA Students will learn how to turn a picture into a template and create a raw-edge appliqué self-portrait block or quilt-top. Kena will share some of her must-have materials used for this method of appliqué and demonstrate a technique that she uses often. You'll choose a photo, create a template and pattern, select fabric options for skin tones, clothing and backgrounds. Next cut out the pattern pieces, fusing it to the background fabric and add some colorful borders. At the end of class, students will have a completed appliquéd portrait block to finish off as either a mini quilt, or continue to build upon it after the workshop is complete. (Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced Quilters) |
THIS CLASS IS FULL.
Unless you've previously registered, do not use this portal for payment. If paying by check, mail payments to: FQFG Attention - Programs P. O. Box 626 Folsom, CA 95630 |
November 10, 2026
7pm
Join us for an evening of quilter games, treats, and prizes! We’ve dreamed up some entertaining games that promise plenty of laughs and friendly competition. Come enjoy good company, some snacks, and a whole lot of fun.
No November workshop.
7pm
Join us for an evening of quilter games, treats, and prizes! We’ve dreamed up some entertaining games that promise plenty of laughs and friendly competition. Come enjoy good company, some snacks, and a whole lot of fun.
No November workshop.
December 8, 2026
Holiday Potluck
Holiday Potluck
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Continuing the tradition of our Holiday Raffle to benefit a local charity, wrap up your "treasures" the prettiest way you can. Purchase tickets for $1 to win a mystery prize. The Guild matches our raffle contributions up to $1,000 to contribute to a worthy charity. Recent recipients have been Twin Lakes Food Bank, Hart of Folsom. You can nominate your favorite charity by completing the form to the right.
Watch for food assignments here and in Thread Breaking News. |
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Quilting is Cheaper Than Therapy
January 12, 2027 7PM
Folsom Community Center
Colleen Granger was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Shortly after graduating from high school, she joined the US Air Force and ended up in Alaska. She served as a helicopter mechanic for seven years, leaving to have her second child. Colleen has spent the majority of her adult life in Alaska making her home in Glennallen. She went kicking and screaming into the world of quilting in the summer of 1998. Until that time Colleen was a sewer and thought quilting was pretty much a waste of good fabric.
Colleen is a grandmother, mother, and widow. Through her company, Sew Little Time Quilting, Colleen offers machine quilting services, classes and lectures, books and patterns. Over the years Colleen has been an instructor for the International Quilt Festivals, both in Houston and Chicago, and her designs have been featured in several national quilting magazines.
Her motto is: "If you aren't having fun, then you shouldn't be doing it."
January 12, 2027 7PM
Folsom Community Center
Colleen Granger was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Shortly after graduating from high school, she joined the US Air Force and ended up in Alaska. She served as a helicopter mechanic for seven years, leaving to have her second child. Colleen has spent the majority of her adult life in Alaska making her home in Glennallen. She went kicking and screaming into the world of quilting in the summer of 1998. Until that time Colleen was a sewer and thought quilting was pretty much a waste of good fabric.
Colleen is a grandmother, mother, and widow. Through her company, Sew Little Time Quilting, Colleen offers machine quilting services, classes and lectures, books and patterns. Over the years Colleen has been an instructor for the International Quilt Festivals, both in Houston and Chicago, and her designs have been featured in several national quilting magazines.
Her motto is: "If you aren't having fun, then you shouldn't be doing it."
Rings of Change Workshop
January 13, 2027 10 - 4pm
Meissner's Folsom
98 Clarksville Road
Learn the techniques to create your own version of the popular Rings of Change quilt. Or purchase a pre-cut kit to make one just like the original.
January 13, 2027 10 - 4pm
Meissner's Folsom
98 Clarksville Road
Learn the techniques to create your own version of the popular Rings of Change quilt. Or purchase a pre-cut kit to make one just like the original.
Prior Programs and Workshops
September 8, 2026 - 7pm
Preserving Memories - One Shirt at a Time
Rita Traxler has been sewing since she was 9 years old. She has been quilting for 35 years, and makes on average 50 or more quilts a year for clients. Rita teaches Beginning Sewing, T-Shirt Classes, Apron Classes, Mesh Bag Classes for just a few.
Workshop - T-Shirt Quilts
September 9, 2026
9:30AM - 4PM
Masonic Center
Learn the basics of how to work with clothing and T-shirts to make them into a quilt. I bring my professional steam pressers, Fussy Cut Rulers, and walk students through from beginning the process to assembling the quilt. This class is limited to 12 participants, so register early!
Preserving Memories - One Shirt at a Time
Rita Traxler has been sewing since she was 9 years old. She has been quilting for 35 years, and makes on average 50 or more quilts a year for clients. Rita teaches Beginning Sewing, T-Shirt Classes, Apron Classes, Mesh Bag Classes for just a few.
Workshop - T-Shirt Quilts
September 9, 2026
9:30AM - 4PM
Masonic Center
Learn the basics of how to work with clothing and T-shirts to make them into a quilt. I bring my professional steam pressers, Fussy Cut Rulers, and walk students through from beginning the process to assembling the quilt. This class is limited to 12 participants, so register early!
August 11, 2026
7PM
Arlene Arnold
250 Years of Quilts, History, and the Women that Made It
Arlene Arnold came to the world of quilting in 1975 with millions of others in the Great Quilt Revival for our nation’s Bicentennial. With her degree in art, Arlene entered the fabric world with enthusiasm.
Today, Arlene’s focus in quilting runs in the area of Pre-Civil War quilts to those from the Depression. She has quite a collection of antique and vintage quilts that she uses to lecture on and share with other quilters. Arlene also makes her own patterns using these quilts for inspiration. And yes, she still uses graph paper and a pencil!
Workshop - Esther's Stars
August 12, 2026 - 10AM - 4PM
Meissner's Sewing - 98 Clarksville Road, Folsom, CA
Esther’s Stars and Esther’s Constellation
Is it modern? Is it antique? This pattern looks crisp in two colors but is also great using several colors and even scrappy. Traditional blocks are redesigned to remove many seams to make a smoother, flatter quilt. 48”x48”
New second size! Esther’s Constellation If you are shy about making 4” blocks here is this quilt made with 8” blocks! 96”x96”.
7PM
Arlene Arnold
250 Years of Quilts, History, and the Women that Made It
Arlene Arnold came to the world of quilting in 1975 with millions of others in the Great Quilt Revival for our nation’s Bicentennial. With her degree in art, Arlene entered the fabric world with enthusiasm.
Today, Arlene’s focus in quilting runs in the area of Pre-Civil War quilts to those from the Depression. She has quite a collection of antique and vintage quilts that she uses to lecture on and share with other quilters. Arlene also makes her own patterns using these quilts for inspiration. And yes, she still uses graph paper and a pencil!
Workshop - Esther's Stars
August 12, 2026 - 10AM - 4PM
Meissner's Sewing - 98 Clarksville Road, Folsom, CA
Esther’s Stars and Esther’s Constellation
Is it modern? Is it antique? This pattern looks crisp in two colors but is also great using several colors and even scrappy. Traditional blocks are redesigned to remove many seams to make a smoother, flatter quilt. 48”x48”
New second size! Esther’s Constellation If you are shy about making 4” blocks here is this quilt made with 8” blocks! 96”x96”.
July 14, 2026
7PM
Summer Ice Cream Social and Challenge
Bring your completed California Dreamin' Challenge entry to share, compare, amaze and inspire. All items will be displayed and ribbons will be awarded by popular vote.
Enjoy socializing and an ice cream bar inside away from the summer heat.
7PM
Summer Ice Cream Social and Challenge
Bring your completed California Dreamin' Challenge entry to share, compare, amaze and inspire. All items will be displayed and ribbons will be awarded by popular vote.
Enjoy socializing and an ice cream bar inside away from the summer heat.